Test 11 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

Why is the giant deer not really an elk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deer	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deer	amod
5	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 elk	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 elk	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 elk	det
9	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deer	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						why property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was a moose that lived in Ireland only and nowhere else in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 moose	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moose	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moose	det
4	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moose	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 nowhere	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nowhere	cc
11	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 lived	advmod
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 nowhere	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Europe	case
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a moose					tree rules
2	live	past	a moose			Ireland		in Europe; nowhere property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location

Option 2

It was a cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a cow					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was a separate kind of deer, named from Irish bog finds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kind	det
4	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	amod
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finds	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 deer	case
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 named	punct
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kind	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 bog	case
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bog	amod
12	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 named	obl
13	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a separate kind		of deer	tree rules
2	name	participle		a separate kind not said here	Irish bog		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	a separate kind				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was a horse with antlers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 horse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 horse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 antlers	case
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 horse	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a horse				with antlers	tree rules

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